Should I have chosen a topic already? I mean I know it's due in 10 days but I think it's weird that you always start talking about the paper right up to the day it's due. Don't get me wrong I love you teaching style and appreciate that you go over that information with us but I just feel like waiting till you're done talking about it because I feel like if I would have already started I would have to go back and keep making changes. But I honestly don't know what to choose for the paper. I want to do compare/contrast but I don't feel like any of the stories are good for that since you ruled out Carnal Knowledge and Modern Love. So I guess I'll have to do theme. Honestly I don't know what to do for that. I think you said to choose two or three stories to do, I honestly don't remember. And I just want to say sorry for showing up hungover to your class. I mean I didn't have to come at all but it's not that hard to get up for an eleven o'clock class. And sorry for almost falling asleep in your class. I mean I know it's dumb on my part for doing it but for some reason I've been so sleep deprived. It's been hard because I have philosophy before your class and I am always on the verge of passing out because he just lectures the whole time and isn't very interactive so I do get excited because I know I won't fall asleep in your class. It was so bad yesterday though. I was in personal finance and I was literally leaning back and forth and my head kept doing that thing where you spazz when your head is falling. Well I had people on both sides of me and I just slid down in my seat to where my head was leaning on the back of the chair and I did end up falling asleep. What was bad about it was that I was sitting in the middle of the row in the middle section of seats right in front of the teachers and I know he saw me but he really couldn't say anything because there are two hundred people in there and I don't think he was going to stop teaching to call me out.

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